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H. H. AL l -EN BAG Aug. 1, 1933.

Original'Filed April 12, 1930 Z. A m w v 95 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICEBAG Henry H. Allen, Huntington- Bay, N. Y., assignor to Bemis Bro. BagCompany, St. Louis, Mo., a Corporation of Missouri Original No.1,795,417, dated March 10, 1931, Serial No. 443,669, April 12, 1930.Application for reissue March 2'7, 1933. Serial No. 664,264

6 Claims. (Ci. 150-1.)

This invention relates generally to bags, and Fig. 4 is a view similarto Fig. 2 but showing more specifically to bags which are formed ofanother form of the invention. woven strands of .material which arewidely sepa- Fig. '5 is an enlarged, fragmentary section on rated toproduce open mesh woven material, the line 5-5 of Fig. 4. I 5predominant object of the invention being to In the drawing, wherein areshown for the purprovide a bag of this type of such improved conpose ofillustration, merely, two embodiments of struction that the drawstringwhich closes the the invention, A desi t s t e mat r al of wh ch openend of the 'bag is a woven strand of the the bag is formed, saidmaterial being comprised material of which the bag is formed. of warpthreads (1 and woof threads I). The 10 Prior to this invention, .w'ovenbags of the threads a and b of the material A are woven in the generaltype to which this invention relates were usual manner, so that the meshof the material provided with drawstrings or ties, and various is qu p ad a d material A is preferably methods were employed to slidingly retainthe p vi wi h a elv e B. he mat rial A b i drawstrings or ties inposition so that they might so cut and folded that the selva B is o dperform their function of drawing the open ends at the pp Op d of thefinished The of the bags together to closesaid open ends. t a A S own ig- 1 as a lva a One instance, it has been common ti t edge only thereof,because the illustrated mateprovide bags with intumed he at th open rialconstitutes a part only of the width of the endsthereof for retainingthe drawstrings or ties n ir w b of material. In some cases where inplace, and also rows of stitches have been larger b s'ar in made thbag'm teri l will provided which were intended to prevent the be p v wih pp i ly i p v s drawstrlngs from slipping from the necks of the edges-Al o, when tw b s are mad fr m a sinbags, gle width of material, thiswidth of material will- I None of the arrangements ror retaining ties bprovided wi pp w edges; and a g 25 or drawstrings in place with which Iam familiar i f r w rins will b w v n i he m functioned in an entirelysatisfactory manner, rial. one h r f j n to ch s lv s f the and I havetherefore devised the arrangement material, and the Width of t al W l bedisclosed herein which, briefly stated, involves and bag P v with a v -id aw t i providing t bag t a drawstring which will be made from eachsection of the severed stitutes a woven strand of the material of whichmaterialth bag is formed The drawstring which Located at a point aslight distance inwardly preferably is a warp thread, would in mostcases from the selvage B of the material A is a draw b somewhat trongern probamy heavier string C, which constitutes a woven strandor than theother threads of which the woven fabric thread of h material The Salvageas would be fo -med or if not heavier said drawready stated herein, ispreferably located at the string would be distinguishable from the otherupper e e of the finishedbag, as in threads by being made from difierentmaterial, and the drawstring C is Woven in the bag material or by beingof different 1 A drawstring a slight distance below this selvage;Preferably, which constitutes a woven element of h open the drawstring Cis distinguishable from the m t m of the bag Slidable fr l with otherthreads of which the material A is formed. 95 respect to the bagmaterial, and therefore may instance the drawstring may P heavier than vbe drawn so as to tightly close the open end of the other threads m Fig;or It a m the bag to prevent escapeof the contents of said 9 dlfierent,matenali or a dlstmglllsh- 45 bag. 11518301601. f Lidlrefwisatthtedrailavjtrirg1 mage, iff 21;; sire, eo a ierensape, in eca o zg 1.1 3 33 22 5 3 i g z; fis j gggzg more or less flat drawstring C illustratedin Fig. is to be made f t 1 b 4, or a plurality of associated andclosely grouped por Ions 0 Sal emg elementsmay be employed to providethe drawbroken away to conserve space. String. 50 F a View. of g f inaccordance In forming my improved bag from a portion-of with thisinvention, 111 this view, also, portions web of material Suitable formaking one of the h s m teri l b ing b w y said web of material isfolded on its center line, Serve p the fold forming one s'ide'of the bagand with the Fig. 3 is an enlarged, fragmentary section on 'selvage Bdisposed at thetop of the bag; The 55 line 3-3 of Fig. 2. folded web isthen sewed with a row of stitches D which extend from top to bottom,thus joining the two ends of the web to form the other side of the bag,and the stitches D are extended across the lower end to close the bottomof the bag. 5 The particular type of seam illustrated in the drawingdoes not require thatthe bag be turned, but if other types of seams areemployed the bag would be turned to turn in the sewed edges of the bagmaterial. I

In producing the form of the bag illustrated in Figs. 2 and 3, theends Cof the drawstring are pulled free of the side seam E before the sewingoperation is performed, drawstring will appear as illustrated mostclearly in Fig. 3. However, if desired, the drawstring may be sewed intothe side seam E of the bag, as shown in Figs. 3 and 5, wherein Cdesignates the drawstring and A the material of which the bag is formed,and after the stitches D have been placed in the bag the drawstring Cmay be pulled or cut free of the seam. Also, if preferred, the ends ofthe drawstring may be'permitted to remain stitched into the side seam ofthe bag, as shown in Figs. 4 and 5, and the mouth of the bag may beclosed by pulling the drawstring from the folded side of the bag.

When the drawstring is close to the selvage B of the bag the usualmethod of closing the bag will be to draw up the drawstring and tie theopposite ends together. If desired, however, the drawstring may bearranged a greater distance below the selvage B, and after the mouth ofthe bag has been drawn to a closed condition the ends of the ,drawstringmay be wrapped several times around the puckered mouth of the bag. Thelatter would be the stronger closure because all of the threads b of thebag material would be engaged by the drawstring, whereas in the case ofthe first method only half of said threads would be so engaged.

An important advantage in favor of the present invention results fromthe fact that the material and time necessary in providing the bags withhems at the open ends, as in some cases Also, asthe bag material of myimproved bag is of quite open mesh, the

open ends of the bag could not be stitched to close strand of saidfabric,

and in this event the drawstring mouth of the bag is substantiallyuniform, whereby'a positive closure is obtained.

I claim: I

1. A bag formed of open mesh, woven fabric and a drawstring whichconstitutes a woven said drawstring being interwoven with substantiallyall of the strands of the fabric which extend transversely with respectthereto. 2. A bag formed of strands of material and open mesh, plainwoven a drawstring which constitutes a woven strand'of the bag-formingmaterial, said drawstringbeing interwoven with substantially all of thestrands of material extended transversely withrespect thereto.

said drawstring being interwoven withsubstantially all of the strands offabric extended transbeyond the seamed side edge of woven material, anda seam formed at a side edge end portions of said drawstring being sewedin said seam. I

- 6. The bag as set forth in claim 3, wherein the strand is made heavierthan the other strandsof the fabric woven transversely thereto.

HENRY H. ALLEN.

cause portions of said drawstring

